The Main Street Bridge, once known as the West Main Street Bridge, is a historic
pony
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Pratt truss
A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements (typically straight) may be stressed from tension, compression, or ...
bridge crossing the
South Branch Raritan River
The South Branch Raritan River is a tributary of the Raritan River in New Jersey.Gertler, Edward. ''Garden State Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2002.
Description
The source of the South Branch is the outflow from Budd Lake, a glacial remnant locate ...
Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population was 128,947, making it the state's 18th-most populous county,Lambertville. The bridge was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
on September 28, 1995 as part of the Clinton Historic District. With It is one of the few early examples of iron Pratt truss bridges remaining in the United States. It was documented by the
Historic American Engineering Record
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in 1991.
Description
The Main Street bridge is one of three remaining composite
cast iron
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and
wrought iron
Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.08%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4%). It is a semi-fused mass of iron with fibrous slag inclusions (up to 2% by weight), which give it a wood-like "grain" ...
Italianate style
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end posts and decorative cast-iron guard rails for the pedestrian walkways.
Gallery
File:CLINTON HISTORIC DISTRICT.jpg,
Italianate style
The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...
end posts
File:DETAIL VIEW OF GUARD NAIL - West Main Street Bridge, Spanning South branch of Raritan River, Clinton, Hunterdon County, NJ HAER NJ,10-CLIN,1-17.tif, Railing detail
File:Main Street Bridge, Clinton, NJ - looking southeast.jpg, Looking southeast from the Red Mill
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
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This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Hunterdon County, Ne ...
List of crossings of the Raritan River
This is a list of road/highway and rail crossings of the Raritan River from the mouth at Raritan Bay upstream. It also includes crossings of its two branches: the North Branch Raritan River and the South Branch Raritan River
The South Branch Rar ...